The president of the University of Iowa is separating its university chief diversity officer and Title IX coordinator into different positions, according to a university news release Monday.

UI President Bruce Harreld has appointed Monique DiCarlo to serve as Title IX coordinator and Lena Hill to serve as interim chief diversity officer and associate vice president, according to the release.

For the past seven years, Georgina Dodge has held the separate job titles and responsibilities. Dodge announced last month that she was leaving Iowa this summer to become associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Her last day is July 24.

Lena Hill(Photo: Special to the Press-Citizen)

DiCarlo will begin her new role July 25, and Hill will begin Aug. 1. Hill's position is pending approval by the Iowa Board of Regents, which oversees Iowa's public universities.

Hill came to the UI in 2006 and received tenure in 2013. In addition to her scholarship on African American literature and visual culture, she is the co-editor of "Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University of Iowa during the Long Civil Rights Era," which was published by UI Press last year.

“Professor Hill has been a steady and valued voice in the President’s Cabinet as well as an exceptional professor and an inspiring member of our community,” Harreld said in the university news release. “I am confident she will execute these new responsibilities with her usual excellence.

DiCarlo as been at UI since 1994 — 15 years as the director of the Women's Resource and Action Center and eight years as UI's sexual misconduct response coordinator. In the latter position, she also has served as deputy Title IX coordinator.

"Her decades of experience and expertise ensure that we will continue to provide the best quality service to our students and our campus in this crucial area," Harreld said.

In additional to her new job title, DiCarlo will continue to serve as sexual misconduct response coordinator and to work with UI's two other deputy Title IX coordinators: Jennifer Modesto, director of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, and Lyla Clerry, an associate athletics director.

University officials plan to begin an open search for a permanent chief diversity officer in late fall 2017 or early spring 2018. The search will begin after a campuswide assessment of diversity initiatives.

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to note that Monique DiCarlo's appointment as Title IX coordinator does not require approval from the Iowa Board of Regents.